8 years ago
Thursday marks the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of three days of one of the largest severe weather outbreaks in the state's history. May 4th through May 6th 2007, severe weather pounded a large part of the area. The most notable event was the Greensburg tornado on May 4th, 2007. The tornado killed 12 people ...

8 years ago
Two friends who share a common bond of a love for live music are working on a second season of the "Now That's Entertainment" Salina summer concert series. Last year Renee Hardesty and Tim Dixson revived the City of Salina's "That's Entertainment" concert series when officials went a different direction and discontinued it. The series featured ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's office is planning to crack down on drunk drivers this weekend. According to the agency, as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation's Impaired Driving Deterrence Program, deputies will be conducting a checkpoint. This checkpoint is designed to identify intoxicated drivers. Those motorists suspected of intoxication will be given on-site field sobriety tests. Efforts ...

8 years ago
The desire to do, rather than just exist, is what inspired Salina Senior Center patron Ron Johnson to create art. Johnson’s art will be on display throughout May in the north end of the Dining Room in the Salina Senior Center, 245 N. Ninth, as a part of our Older Americans Month celebration. Operated by the ...

8 years ago
A couple of Salina area high school graduating senior basketball players will get the opportunity to compete a final time on the hardwood, against some of the best graduating college talent in the country. The KU Barnstorming Tour is out on the road right now, and when it makes  a stop in Wichita on Friday ...

8 years ago
Local lore points to the hill northwest of Lindsborg - as the landmark where Spanish explorer Coronado made a U-turn back to Mexico. Coming up Thursday evening at the Smoky Hill Museum in Salina, archaeologist Tim Weston will be exploring the myths, history and connection Coronado Heights has to residents in Saline and McPherson Counties. Weston says ...

8 years ago
The mother of a 4-year-old autistic boy says she believes a Topeka police officer who rescued her son from a pond was sent by God. Officer Aaron Bulmer rescued the boy, Elijah Hamby, from a Central Park pond Sunday. He was on another call when he saw Elijah walking alone in the park and then lost ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary at a storage unit. Police say sometime between noon last Friday and 2pm on Saturday, someone broke the lock on a unit at Salina Mini Storage, 2727 Centennial Road and removed numerous items and keepsakes including four, 1934 $20 bills. The renter, Jane Kinney told officers that a number of electric ...

8 years ago
A Kansas couple is donating $5 million to help build a student center at Fort Hays State University. The university announced Tuesday that Richard Fischli and Dolores Willis-Fischli, of Logan, recently committed the money to a center on the Hays campus that will give students a single place to stop for academic, medical and mental health ...

8 years ago
Saline County Commissioners began the 2018 budget process with a goal of providing the Sheriff’s Office with a realistic budget, with the “assumption” that department “won’t overspend in 2018”.  If all of Sheriff Roger Soldan’s budget requests are granted, spending for contingencies, overtime, contract housing and inmate medical would require that an additional $1,379,433 be ...

8 years ago
Another current commissioner will run in the upcoming election to retain a spot on the Salina City Commission. Melissa Hodges plans to run for election. Hodges has been a city commissioner since December, when the other commissioners selected her to take the place of Randall Hardy. Hodges was selected from a group of 14 different people ...